© UKTV Gold Taskmaster to return for a 'champion of champions' special
13/09/2017 … Taskmaster is to return for a two part 'champion of champions' special this December.
2017 News
All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
Wed 13 September 2017
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BBC orders Tracey Ullman satire shows
She'll even take on Jeremy Corbyn
13/09/2017 … BBC One has commissioned three new episodes of Tracey Ullman's satirical show Tracey Breaks The News.
Matt Richardson goes back to the old haunt...
Hosting Celebrity Haunted Mansion
13/09/2017 … Matt Richardson is to host another series of Celebrity Haunted.
© BBC The Unseen Victoria Wood archives
Material revealed in new Dinnerladies documentary
13/09/2017 … Victoria Wood’s previously unseen notebooks, backstage photos, diaries and studio records are to be revealed in a new TV series paying tribute to her sitcom…
Tue 12 September 2017
Three more years!
HBO renews Last Week Tonight With John Oliver til 2020
12/09/2017 … HBO has renewed Last Week Tonight With John Oliver for three more seasons.
Joe Lycett adds extra tour dates
19 more shows go on sale Friday
12/09/2017 … Joe Lycett has added another 19 dates to his new tour I’m About To Lose Control And I Think Joe Lycett.
Eddie Izzard writes his first movie
Wartime drama Six Minutes To Midnight
12/09/2017 … Eddie Izzard has written his first film.
© David Shankbone / Creative Commons 3.0/CC BY-SA 3.0 Mike Myers pulls out of improv mentor biopic
12/09/2017 … Mike Myers has pulled out of a biopic about his mentor, the improv comedy legend Del Close.